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Today I'm happy to pull back the curtain on a new class I've been tinkering with in my spare minutes: the mystic! The mystic is a full spellcaster class representing those who have mastered magic via occult traditions and a di...
2021-09-24 22:59:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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For this month's patreon exclusive, your recruits, adventurers, and legends selected the Circle of Plague—a disease loving druid archetype! This was a challenging one to write on a few fronts but I believe I made it interest...
2021-09-13 04:54:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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For August’s Patreon exclusive, our Recruits, Adventurers, & Legends voted to give me a “wild card”. I decided to take this opportunity to iterate on new categories of magic items I’d been idly thinking of—super...
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For this month's Patreon exclusive, your Recruits, Adventurers, and Legends voted for a set of feats for pugilists. I decided to broaden the scope a bit to include both actual pugilists (the class) and feats that let oth...
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The oft submitted underdog has finally won the monthly exclusive poll so I present to you the thrown weapon specialist pugilist, the Pummeling Pitcher! This one was an interesting challenge and I kept finding myself wanting to...
2021-06-08 02:44:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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This month a ghostbusting subclass for the artificer class won the ballot. I took prompt pretty literally! Whether you're a fan of the original movies, the all female main cast remake, or the cartoons I think you'll find s...
2021-05-14 05:23:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday everyone!
Incase you forgot, the winner of last month's vote to become the Patreon exclusive was something I was already writing for The Ultimate Adventurer's Handbook. Since I couldn't make that an exclusive I committ...
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This month there was a three way tie for what was to be the April exclusive. I've chosen two of those involved in the tie to develop as your April exclusives and the first one is here! The Path of the Groundbreaker is...
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This month you voted for an ooze artificer or ranger for your Patreon exclusive but there was a bit of a hiccup—I was already writing one for an upcoming book! So instead of an exclusive this month you get a preview and next...
2021-03-11 23:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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This month, Optional Class Features for the Magus class won out our popular vote poll. I had an interesting time writing this as it gave me the opportunity to look back over the magus class and consider simple fixes to a few i...
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Happy New Year! I hope you're all having as good of a start to 2021 as you can given the circumstances.
In December the recruits, adventurers, and legends voted that for this month's exclusive they wanted to se...
2021-01-08 19:17:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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For the final month of December, our Recruit, Adventurers, and Legends voted on a new pugilist Fight Club as the exclusive: the Draconic Sphere Zenkai. The prompt for this Fight Club was "DBZ inspired" but since I've never se...
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First of all, sorry to get this one to you so late in the month.
Second of all, whew! I got it done in November just in time!
Third, please enjoy your patron exclusive summoning focused warlock archetype!
F...
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This month's winner of the popular vote for new content was warforged subraces! If you're a fan of Eberron, I apologize, I know almost nothing about the setting so I struck off in a random direction that inspired me rather tha...
2020-10-09 17:36:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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For September's patron exclusive, your recruits, adventurers, and legends voted for the Chrononaut, a time manipulating artificer! There aren't a ton of time manipulation spells in 5e so I did write a new spell, cascade ...
2020-09-11 13:40:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm expecting my second son any (wait for it) second now but I just got this back from Nate and I wanted to show it off! Last weekend, @thinkingDM challenged me to turn the "pimp cup" concept into a player option. He shared ...
2020-08-11 04:44:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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For August, a set of feats that improve synergy in multiclassing won out (just barely) over a contract themed bardic college. This prompt was definitely a challenge for a number of reasons! Multiclassing is typically weaker th...
2020-08-09 04:47:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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For July's patron exclusive, your recruits, adventurers, and legends voted for ANOTHER Fight Club. You guys have so many now! This month's is a forge themed fight club. I wasn't sure how to approach it for awhile but, ultimate...
2020-07-14 13:25:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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This month your Recruits, Seasoned Adventurers, and Legends voted for Intelligence based feats for combat. I had a handy reference in the Scholar class. You'll notice that some of the feats grant modified versions of Scholar fea...
2020-06-14 05:09:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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This month the artificer got some super duper creepy love with the Reanimator archetype! I haven't written an artificer archetype since the official release and, let me tell you, it is very hard to extrapolate a consistent d...
2020-05-05 16:56:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Tonight I'll be doing a Keep of the Kobold Queen livestreamed Q&A from 7:30 PM PST to 9 PM PST on my twitch channel (https://www.twitch.tv/sterlingv...
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As I mentioned earlier this month, to celebrate my birthday I wanted to make you two exclusives instead of one. I was happily surprised this month to see an idea I'd had for a long time but had been putting off, the martial a...
2020-04-22 15:06:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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Keep of the Kobold Queen is now officially available on the DM's Guild! If you've been following the production of KotKQ you know it's not just an adventure, it's a whole suite of content aimed at play...
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I'm getting *so* hyped up for Keep of the Kobold Queen which, if you didn't know, releases on the DM's Guild this upcoming Monday, April 20th. To celebrate the imminent release, and because art assets are not exclu...
2020-04-17 18:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there SV fans!
The trailer for my next adventure, inspired by JRPGs of yore (and today), can now be seen on youtube. This trailer gives you a taste of everything you can expect from the adventure plus reveals the oh-so-close release dat...
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I have a ton of info for you this month but I want to start with expressing my sincere hope that all of you and your families are well during this global health crisis. It's a scary, unpredictable time and I appreciate your on...
2020-04-07 20:16:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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It had been a long time since I'd had a reason to go back and review the scholar again, as well as work on new content for it, so I was excited when a "forbidden lore" Field of Study won the vote for this month! As ...
2020-03-13 16:27:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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Another Fight Club for the Pugilist class! You guys are made for this stuff! My prompt this month was, "a pugilist who uses explosives to improve their fighting". At first I was not sure how I was going to turn that i...
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I hope your January was an excellent start to the 20's. As I did a little bit over a year ago, I'm thinking of ways to improve the Patreon. I have a few ideas that I'd like to share with you to get your feedback on them, as we...
2020-02-02 21:41:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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This month's exclusive is quite a bit later than I had intended to get it out—my apologies for that! Until this player option was voted the most popular choice for January, I actually had never read or knew anything a...
2020-01-27 15:27:33 +0000 UTC View Post